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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2018 14:27:10 GMT
One for Espada probably. Our house has thingies at the roof apexes, pieces of wood about 2.5" tall, decorative sort of spike things, about the thickness of fence posts with pointy ends. Well, anyway, the one from the highest point has just fallen off and gone through a section of roof, smashing tiles.
We've contacted our insurance and someone will come, but, what the heck are they actually called?
Just missed my son's car on the way down too thank goodness and finally came to rest outside the front door. Would've impaled anyone standing there.
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Post by tyrednexited on Jul 8, 2018 14:45:16 GMT
.....Finial.....
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Post by Humph on Jul 8, 2018 15:33:47 GMT
Yes !!! That's it. I couldn't get "Ferule" out of my head. Well, thankfully, it wasn't actually in my head so to speak, or anyone else's, but it would have done them no good at all if it had been.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2018 17:26:49 GMT
Ferule is the rubber bit at the bottom of a chair leg or walking stick.
Yes - finial; although architectural terminology is not my expertise.
There is a type of bay window seen in the back room of terraced houses where the lean-to roof of the bay is made up a timber frame and glazing. For 30 years I have called this a 'Lancashire Light' taking my cue from surveyors wo were then, my age now. However, in my firm I have two surveyors with greater building pathology expertise than me, and they have never called them Lancashire Lights. One calls them Yorkshire Lights, the other simply a glass roofed bay. None of us can find a reference for our name.
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Post by WDB on Jul 8, 2018 22:53:11 GMT
Ferule is the rubber bit at the bottom of a chair leg or walking stick. By rights a ferrule ought to be made of metal, specifically iron. I tend to think first of the part that binds the hairs to the handle of an artist's brush. But my Chambers also offers 'ferule' (one r) as a 'cane or rod for punishment' ( Ferula is giant fennel, apparently.) It seems unlikely that Humph had these designed into his house, but one never knows. He lives among us but is not one of us. |
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Post by dixinormus on Jul 9, 2018 9:11:59 GMT
What brought it down I wonder Humph? Wind? Or had you climbed on the roof to attach the England flag to something?! 🤣
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Post by dixinormus on Jul 9, 2018 9:12:26 GMT
What brought it down I wonder Humph? Wind? Or had you climbed on the roof to attach the England flag to something?! 🤣
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2018 9:35:28 GMT
Funnily enough, I haven't hoisted an England flag. Although I am glad they're doing well, this country needs something to cheer it up at the moment.
Heat I think was the problem with my finial ( never good to get your finials too hot I gather )
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Post by commerdriver on Jul 9, 2018 9:49:08 GMT
Ferule is the rubber bit at the bottom of a chair leg or walking stick. By rights a ferrule ought to be made of metal, specifically iron. I tend to think first of the part that binds the hairs to the handle of an artist's brush. But my Chambers also offers 'ferule' (one r) as a 'cane or rod for punishment' ( Ferula is giant fennel, apparently.) It seems unlikely that Humph had these designed into his house, but one never knows. He lives among us but is not one of us. I knew I had heard it somewhere, one of my university mates, who attended the RC equivalent to my Glasgow grammar school in the 1960s, used to describe these as the corporal punishment chits at their school. The boys would get a chit for 2 ferules or whatever to be taken, possibly together with any others from that week, to the Priest responsible for punishment in the school and received on the posterior. The equivalent for us at our school was always dealt with by the teacher involved at the time to the hands with the standard issue length of best lochgelly leather. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 9, 2018 18:16:47 GMT
If God has a proper sense of humour the falling finial would have smashed the door mirror off your wife's car.
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Post by Humph on Jul 9, 2018 18:30:38 GMT
I think he's been too busy moving trees in Chile.
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